Elephant in hiding

Danny Boyle's mantelpiece must be groaning. He was characteristically gracious accepting his BFI fellowship last week, and carried away the handsome, emerald, deco-style sculpture in what looked like a cake tin. "I'll definitely be putting this one in the living room," he told me. "It's beautiful and apparently refracts the light in amazing ways." Will it go next to the Oscar, I asked. "Oh no, I keep that in a box," he said. "I just couldn't face seeing that every day. You couldn't get any work done if you had to look at it staring back at you. It's the elephant in the room. I'll put it out one day, when I'm old. We're all much better off with it in the box until then."

Overheard

A restored 1920s train carriage from the Orient Express will arrive at BFI Southbank to celebrate Agatha Christie weekend on Nov 19-21. It'll be murder getting it there from its depot in Battersea, apparently… My most anticipated project is Chiwetel Ejiofor and Steve McQueen's film Fela (the stage version opens in London next month) about the life of Fela Kuti … Mike Leigh is making a film for the Olympics… And which actor flipped at an LFF party and threatened to glass someone?

Trash LFF awards

Best actress Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine; Naomie Harris in The First GraderBest actor

Jim Broadbent in Another Year

Best music Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in both Of Gods and Men and Black Swan; Tunde Jegede's kora playing in The First GraderBest wig Paddy Considine's mullet in SubmarineBest canapes Chicken tikka at Mint Leaf